Anthony Burgess
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Anthony Burgess (1917-93) was an English novelist, critic, and man of letters whose fictional explorations of modern dilemmas combine wit, moral earnestness, and a note of the bizarre.
His A Clockwork Orange (1962; filmed 1971) made his reputation as a novelist of comic and mordant power. Other novels include The Eve of Saint Venus (1964), Enderby Outside (1968), Earthly Powers (1980), The End of the World News (1983), The Kingdom of the Wicked (1985), Any Old Iron (1989), and A Dead Man in Deptford (1993). He also wrote a two-volume autobiography, Little Wilson and Big God: Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess (1987) and You've Had Your Time: Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess (1990).
Primary Contributions (1)
Novel, an invented prose narrative of considerable length and a certain complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience, usually through a connected sequence of events involving a group of persons in a specific setting. Within its broad framework, the genre of the novel has encompassed an…
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Publications (4)
A Clockwork Orange (1986)
The only American edition of the cult classic novel.Publishers WeeklyAfter his youthful adventures of raping and pillaging, Alex finds himself in prison. When he volunteers for an experiment, his sentence is commuted to two weeks. The experiment leaves him physically incapable of doing wrong and releases him back into the world. However, when he repeatedly runs into people he has wronged in the past, his real suffering begins. This audiobook gives new life to Burgess's...
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